Peril is defined as serious and immediate danger. To be periled means to be exposed to danger. Nearly two years ago, a mother and her small child were in peril and Bob Selfridge periled himself to save them.

“I was six months sober. The little girl is alive because I was sober,” Selfridge, an LBI first responder, said recently. He recalled how Andrew Baxter, a member of the Barnegat Light Volunteer Fire Co. water rescue team, told him, “You saved all of us.